Dirigible headlight construction



Feb. 27, 1923. m 1,446,979

W. W. M DOWELL DIRIGIBLE HEADLIGHT CONSTRUCTION Filed Aug. 10, 1922 5 sheets-sheet 1 Feb. 27, 1923. 1,446,979 W. W, M DOWELL DIHIGIBLE HEADLIGHT GQNSTRUGTION Fi1cdAug 1.0, 3 92 5 sheetsfiheet 2 Feb. 27, 1923. 1,446,979

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LDIEIJIBLL HEADLIGHT oons'rnucrion I p Application filed august 10, 1-922. Serial No. 580,996.

Constructions, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my said invention is the provision of a reliable dirigible headlight construction embodying low lamps and means whereby the lamps will be swung correspondingly with the swinging of the front. wheels in the making of a turn so as to illuminate the roadway in front of the car.

'The novel low headlight construction is also adapted to be usedin connection'with the ordinary lamps of a well known make of automobile so thatthe roadway in front of the car will be illuminated by the comparatively high. nonrdirigible lamps as well as by the low dirigible lamps. I

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a front elevation showing a portionof a well known make of automobile equipped with my improvement.

Figure 2 is a horizontal section taken in the plane indicated by the line 2-2 of Figure 1. i

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail vertical section taken in the plane indicated by the line 33 of Figure 1. L

Figure 4 is an enlarged detail horizontal section taken in the plane indicated by the line 44 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is an enlarged perspective of'one of the arms which in accordance with my invention are connected to the steering knuckles of the automobile.

Figure 6 is an enlarged perspective of one of the links for interposition between the.

provided with lowerreduced portions which extend downwardly through said swells and are equipped with nuts 1. I

In furtherance of my invention. I employ in association with the standards 2 angular V bracketsfi one of which is shown in detail in Figure 3. The said angular brackets 5.

are equipped attheir lower endswith vertically disposed sleeves 6, and in the said sleeves 6., are arranged the spindles 7 'of dirigible lamps 8. Appropriate anti-friction bearings 9 for the spindles 7 are also arranged in the sleeves 6, and secured by nuts 10 on the lower ends of the spindles 7 or by any other appropriate means are T- H in their arms with apertures for adjustment purposes, and 'retractile springs 12.

and links-13 are connectedto the arms of the said. T-heads.

biles such as at. present in use the'b'racket armsl i are provided with angularly-disposed and apertured heels 15, and the said heels 15 are secured by nuts 16 on the reduced portions 17 of steering arms" 18 which. steering arms are extended rearwardly from apertured portions '19 on the knuckles 15.

In virtue of my novel construction as shown and described it will be understood that the dirigible lamps 8 will be swung by and correspondingly with the swinging of the wheels 16 toward the right or toward the left incident to the steering of the automobile. and irrespective of the turn it will be manifest that the lamps 8 will illuminate the path of the automobile in the'directiou in which the turn is made, and being 10-. cated near the ground, the said lamps 8 will thoroughly illuminate the road in the direction of the turn. and this while the stationary lamps 1 illuminate the roadway in front of the body of the automobile.

The retractile springs 12 comprised in my improvement are always under tension, and

they have the effect of preventing rattling of the moving parts and assuring steadiness.

heads 11. The said T-heads 11 are provided The said springs 12 and links 13- extend outwardly from the of motion when the dirigible lamps 8 are moved'as stated by and with the steering wheels 16. e

In addition to the practical advantages ascribed to my novel construction it will be understood that the construction is readily applicable to automobiles at presentin use, and that the construction as a whole is well adapted to withstand the usage to which automobiles are ordinarily subjected.

Byiparticular.referenceto Figure 2 it will be noted that the rcarwardly directed knuckle arms 18 are 'connectedtogether in conventional'imanner bya cross rod 20, and that a rod 21 is connected to one of the knuckle arms 18, the said rod 21 being designed and adapted to be connected in the ordinary well known manner witlrthesteer ing means of the automobile.

I have enterediinto adetailed description of the construct on and relative arrangement of the partsv embraced in the present and preferred embodiment of my invention in i order to impart a full, clear and exact understanding of the said em-bodiment.- I do not desire, however, to be understood 'awconlining mysellf tothev specific construction Iandrelative arrangement of parts inasmuch as in the future practice of the invention various *changesand modlficatlons may be made such as fall within 'the scope ofmy invention as defined in my appended claims.

Having describedmy invention, what I claim and desire to secureby Letters-Patcnt, is I i 1. In a dirigible headlight construction for automobiles, the combination with apertured swells on'fender: brackets, knuckles carrying steering. wheels and having ginner apertured portions, steering arms having: reduced p'ortions extended through the apertured portions'of the knuckles andequipped with nuts, and lamps having standards with reduced lower portions disposed in the swells of the fender brackets and equipped below said. brackets with nuts; of brackets secured by said nuts on the forward reduced portions of the steering arms, angular brackets secured on the reduced portions of the standards of the lamps and provided at their lower forward ends with vertically disposed sleeves, 'dirigible lamps :having pendent spindles disposed and adapted to turnin said sleeves, T-heads onsaid spindles and disposed below said-sleeves, .re-

lniuckles, brackets fixed to and extending forwardly from the inner portions of" the knuckles, angularbracketsfixedito and extending downwardly and then forwardly from the fender brackets andhaving sleeves at their forward endss'rdirigible' headlights havingspindlesjournaled in saidi sleeves, T heads fixedto the lowerlends ofs'aidspim dles,- retrac-tlle sprlngs interposedv between and connected to the brackets and the T- heads; the inner ends of theispringsand links being disposed atopposite sides of the centers of the T-head. I y x 1 w In testimony whereof I iaflix my signature.

WALTER w. MCDOWE L;

interposed 

